The Five Wounds (CD) (ISBN-13: 9781665189224)

It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans for personal redemption. With weeks to go until her due date, tough, ebullient Angel has fled her mother's house, setting her life on a startling new path. Vivid, tender, funny, and beautifully rendered, The Five Wounds spans the baby's first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge: Amadeo's mother, Yolanda, reeling from a recent discovery; Angel's mother, Marissa, whom Angel isn't speaking to; and disapproving T?e, Yolanda's uncle and keeper of the family's history. Each brings expectations that Amadeo doesn't think he can live up to. The Five Wounds is a miraculous debut novel from a writer whose stories have been hailed as legitimate masterpieces (New York Times). Kirstin Valdez Quade conjures characters that will linger long after the book's conclusion, bringing to life their struggles to parent children they may not be equipped to save.

Author: Kristin Valdez Quade
ISBN-10: 1665189223
ISBN-13: 9781665189224
Publisher: HighBridge Audio
Language: English
Published: 05/18/2021
Format: CD
Weight: 0.75lbs
Award: ALA Notable Books - Winner
Award: Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence - Finalist